M.S., Data Science

Columbia University

New York, NY

2016 - 2014

M.S. Astronomy

Unvisity of Maryland

College Park, MD

2014 - 2011

B.S., Astronomy and Physics

Unvisity of Maryland

College Park, MD

2011 - 2007

Data Scientist

Uncommon Schools

New York, NY

Current - 2016

• Produced high-quality analytics work around student, and teacher data
• Taught coworkers basics and best practices of R coding
• Set up automatic connections to databases to allow for automatic nightly refreshes of data analyses

Data Scientist

Crisis Text Line

New York, NY

2016 - 2015

• Built and shipped a new volunteer application that was used by 7600 applicants. Increased the completion rate from 40% to 90%
• Identified trainee drop off times for trainers. Produced cohort reports of training metrics. Identified key differences among cohorts to provide trainers with new solutions
• Identified counselor churn as the largest organizational priority, and set up tracking, reporting, and analysis of key metrics. Presented results to a staff of 35

Data Librarian / Software Engineer

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenbelt, MD

2016 - 2014

• Reformatted science data images to be compatible with WMS tile servers. Products are used as part of the educational Science on a Sphere and NASA Earth and Space Observatory programs.
• Designed traveling Hubble Space Telescope exhibits’ new iPad kiosks using HTML, JavaScript, and KioskPro

Teacher’s Assistant

Unvisity of Maryland

College Park, MD

N/A

• Developed discussion activities, motivated group discussion and peer learn- ing, incorporated technology resources such as educational online videos, and graded assignments
• Received award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching in the I-Series Courses

Research Assistant

Unvisity of Maryland

College Park, MD

2014 - 2011

• Researched the formation mechanisms of molecular pillars, such as the Eagle nebula’s Pillars of Creation
• Compared CARMA observations of high density gas to model predictions. Created IDL and Python scripts to process, analyze, and display the results

Summer Intern

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenbelt, MD

2011 - 2011

• Performed analysis on raw data to produce a three-colored ultraviolet image of the Andromeda galaxy
• Image has been featured on Astronomy Picture of the Day twice since publication

Summer Intern

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Greenbelt, MD

2010 - 2010

• Developed bash shell scripts to manually set the aspect correction of images from the Swift satellite allowing the data to used in further research

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R-Ladies NYC board member

R-Ladies NYC

N/A

Current - 2019